It's just some docs right? Why hard mask it? The reason given is for sun-jdk-1.5 not docs. Fine to mask sun-jdk but no reason given for masking java-sdk-docs so it should be unmasked bash-2.05b# emerge -vp =dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.5.0 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.5.0" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.5.0 (masked by: package.mask) # <axxo@gentoo.org> # If you use 1.5 you will get sandbox violations on /dev/random # please don't file any more bugs on that issue # # 1.5 defaults too -target 1.5 making downgrading to a 1.4(/1.3) # impossible, see bug 65937 for more information/discussion For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.
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